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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

Voltaire

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One Liner Peace Pen Poet War Writing
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Authority Conceal Injustice Men Speech
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Appreciation Excellence Gratitude Sympathy Wonderful
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Enemy God Grant Humour Prayer Ridiculous
Love truth, but pardon error.
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Error Love One Liner Truth
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Deep Education Intelligence Man Silence Talk
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Deep Intelligence Judgement One Liner Stupidity
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Change Finding Inspirational Life Pleasant
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Expectation Human Nature Life Live One Liner
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Ending Healing Independence Injustice Produce Suffering